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2.2/10   421 votes
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Director:
Gregory Lemkin
Writers:
A. Everett Howe (writer)
Gregory Lemkin (writer)
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Genre:
Horror more
Plot:
Inmates and guards alike become trapped in a maximum security prison when they fall prey to a demonic beast that feeds on human flesh... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
The Most God-Awful Movie. The Worst I Have Ever Seen! Turned Off After 30 Minutes more (20 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Jennifer Lee Wiggins ... Ginny Lydon (as Jennifer Wiggins)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Vaz Andreas ... Velku
Ava Bellamy ... Sasha (as Natalia Bellami)

Stephen A.F. Day ... Russian Pimp (as Stephen Day)

Thomas Downey ... Beast (as Tom Downey)
Scott Evans ... Partner

Chris Facey ... Riggs
Brian J. Garland ... Andrews
Marat Glazer ... Marcoux
Steven Glinn ... Jimmy
A.J. Hammond ... Mohammad

Joel Hebner ... Beast

Martin Hristov ... Andrei
Bobby James ... Warden

Louis Mendoza ... Eddie
John Nelson ... Big Sam
Ocean ... Tyrese

Jim Polivka ... Iosif

Elliot Ruiz ... Pedro

Charles Schneider ... Father
Leigh Scott ... Harry Ellis
Byron Washington ... Leonard
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence/gore, language and some sexual content.
Runtime:
81 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
USA:R
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA

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The Most God-Awful Movie. The Worst I Have Ever Seen! Turned Off After 30 Minutes, 16 January 2009
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Author: jbartelone from United States

I don't believe I have ever seen a worse film in my life. Everything about this movie is the lowest of the low, it is putrid. (And that may be its good point!) Seriously, it is THAT BAD.

Shapeshifter is set in some remote prison with guards who have the mentality of a middle-school dropout both in intelligence and training. They walk around the facility with nothing of substance to say or do. There is nothing of quality in this movie, there is no story, no value, no reason to watch. The Shapeshifter appears to be some Russian immigrant prisoner who is able to transform himself into a flesh-eating monster. He starts by biting on his arm until it bleeds, with some terrible music and special effects that will make anyone watching prone to seizures, does some metamorphosis dancing, which takes about 5 minutes for him to change, than becomes this monster, The Shapshifter. The Shapreshifter than eats the flesh of the people at the prison. I didn't even get that far into the movie, but other reviewers have said that he does the same thing EVERY TIME.

I cannot think of one positive thing to say about this movie, not one. Terrible camera angles, annoying rap music that has no place or reason to be in any of the scenes, and rapidly changing movements of the director going from shot to shot add up to garbage. This movie is beyond bad.

What is even worse, is that some films that are bad at least have some unintentional humor to make them what some industry people call, "Golden Turkeys" The type of movies that are so bad, they are good, because they are corny. Shapeshifter can't even save itself from even the smallest bit of intentional humor to give it any redeeming qualities at all. How did this trash even get made? Shame on The Chiller Channel for showing this garbage, and any other stations that may air it for that matter.

This movie should be pulled from distribution and destroyed. If that happened, I guarantee you that whoever had to sit through this moronic film would celebrate. Please don't waste your time with this film. It's an insult to all viewers that this crap was even made. I feel sick and angry just from watching it. I have no idea what the cast and crew were smoking when they made this hideous picture.

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